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Anthelmintic vs Taenicide - What's the difference?

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Taenicide is a related term of anthelmintic.



As nouns the difference between anthelmintic and taenicide

is that anthelmintic is a drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body while taenicide is a medicine that destroys tapeworms.

As an adjective anthelmintic

is destructive to parasitic intestinal worms.

anthelmintic

English

(wikipedia anthelmintic)

Alternative forms

* antihelminthic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (medicine) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms.
    • Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • The parasites thrive in an environment of dirt, and the main lines of precaution are those dictated by sanitary science. Malefern, santonine, thymol and other anthelmintic remedies are prescribed.
  • * 1918 , , Abstracts of Bacteriology , Volume 2, page 262,
    • However, the lighter boiling constituents of tne oil are much less irritating and at the same time they are apparently more anthelmintic than the heavier fraction.
  • * 1919 , Experiment Station Record , Volume 39, page 586,
    • Our experiments indicate that this constituent is anthelmintic' and also a gastrointestinal irritant, while the lighter portion of the oil is apparently even more ' anthelmintic and much less irritating.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body.
  • * 1911 , :
    • The bark of the root is likewise valued as an anthelmintic in cases of tape-worm.
  • * 2010 , Graham R. Duncanson, Veterinary Treatment for Working Equines , page 42:
    • Rather than give a long list of the anthelmintics available, I will describe the helminths that cause problems and then suggest methods of control.

    taenicide

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * tenicide, teniacide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
  • * The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia'', by Richard Pankhust, in the ''Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , XXIV(3):323-334, 1969:
    • The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree...
  • * Cocoanut as a Taenicide'', in the ''Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 59, 1890:
    • If we are not mistaken, this is one of the popular Russian remedies...It is not necessary to take cathartics, simply eating a whole cocoanut being sufficient.
  • * An in vivo screening method for anthelmintic activity using Hymenolepis nana var fraterna in mice , by J. Crowley, in Parasitology, 51:339-345 Cambridge University Press, 1961:
    • Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.

    Related terms

    * taenifuge * taeniasis * vermifuge * anthelmintic

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